With the words, “We’ll take one!”, spoken virtually ‘on a whim, then-Col. Leo Goodrich brought to the 133rd Airlift Wing of the Minnesota Air National Guard a new unit with a very specific mission - transporting injured personnel from one location to another via airlift.
With the words, “We’ll take one!”, spoken virtually ‘on a whim, then-Col. Leo Goodrich brought to the 133rd Airlift Wing of the Minnesota Air National Guard a new unit with a very specific mission - transporting injured personnel from one location to another via airlift.
This is the story of how this fledgling unit, initially staffed with very few military personnel and newly recruited medical personnel, began with virtually nothing, no uniforms or training materials, and went from being the unwelcome “stepchild” to the pride of their wing, then on to become the premier medical evacuation squadron in the U.S. Air Force system. 109th Aeromeds participated in all contingency operations since the Cold War through the first two decades of this century. Their exploits are chronicled within the pages of this history with stories ranging from light-hearted to sobering, offering a genuine insight into the realities of transporting the injured in conflicts global and regional as experienced by the citizen soldiers of this unit.
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